Influential Blogs of 2007: Where are they now?
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Two years ago, Janette Toral of Digital Filipino initiated a ‘Writing Project’ about the first ever Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in the world wide web. Just like this year, the 2007 candidates for the writing project is not only exclusive to the Philippine blogosphere but from all over the world.
The aim of the writing project is pretty simple. The top 10 nomination coming from the fellow bloggers must identify blogs that inspire them and could provide something worthy to the readers.
So, have they lived up to the expectations?
Let’s see…
Top 1:Â Tied on the top spot were:
An Apple A Day by Aileen Apolo
Aileen Apolo’s blog currently have 140 feedburner readers and 909 twitter followers. Her blog is still rocking steady as she have ‘captive readers’ with her daily musings about everything. I think she is worthy of the title because the journal life approach give readers a feel that she really enjoys sharing her life in the blogosphere.
The Philosophical Bastard by Paolo Mendoza
Lo and behold, this top influential blog of 2007 is no longer accessible to the public eye! Yep, even the domain name is for sale!
I guess the blogger behind this great blog will no longer let us read his humor and philosophy in life as he also decided followers to read his blog entries via invitation. Hmmm, what could have happened along the way?
Too bad really as I have a glimpse of his blogs in social networking Blog Catalog and the entries are worth reading.
Top 2:Â The D Spot by Dine Racoma
Dine Racoma‘s blog still continue to gain readers as she shares her life and parenting experiences in the world wide web. Racoma’s blog currently have 175 feedburner subscribers so I believe she will stay solid in the blogosphere and will continue to give insights on every issues that matter.
Top 3:Â CokskiBlue
CokskiBlue (now named ThisisCoy.net)Â is owned by Coy, a Pinoy video blogger who has collection of video which covers just about anything – from travel, events and various reviews. He is also an avid supporter of the Filipino vloggers. Interestingly, Coy is again nominated this year (Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2009) for his vlog, Video Chops Dot Com.
So what differentiate Video Chops from Cokskiblue? Coy pointed out that the new vlog is not just another blog about video blogging but rather a QUICK CHOP on his unused video clips and footages which make it downloadable to the viewing public for free! Oh well, see for yourselves and check it out…
Top 4:Â Make Money Online with a 13-Year Old
Carl Ocab is probably one of the most successful teenage bloggers on the blogosphere at this moment. Carl, now age 15, is a truly one of a kind as this internet celebrity holds a remarkable position of being on the top spot in Google for the keyword “Make Money Online†after only seven months of optimization. He also deserved the accolades as he was been featured on the national newspaper twice, been interviewed by some of the top notch internet marketers in the blogging block like Joel Christopher, Jack Humphrey, Rosalind Gardner and Nick Marks!
So, what can I say about Carl? Whoa, you are definitely one influential kiddo! Kudos to you and keep up the good work! 
Top 5: Tied on the fifth spot were Culture Shiok! and Utakgago
Culture Shiok! is a blog of an Overseas Filipino Worker in Singapore. So, what happened to this influential blog?
The blog which currently hosted at Blogger/Blogspot is noticeably not up to date. Sadly, the last entry from this blog was March 2008 with an astonishing total blog entries of 4 in the same year.
Was it the end of this blog?
Well, I don’t know – but from the looks it, the blogger still has no intention of updating his bloggy soon. 
The domain is currently parked because the Swedish host of his former website has been pulled off without any notice. Anyway, blogger Kevin hasn’t stopped blogging ever since as he still continue to let subscribers read his impressive writing skills to this url link (http://seriouslie.wordpress.com/).
Kudos to you Kevin for not getting frustrated with what happened to your original blog! 
Top 6:Â Kubiertos
Kubiertos is a blog of ApplesH a food enthusiasts. She blogs about food, eating, recipes, dining and restaurants in the Philippines. The blog currently has 249 feedburner subscribers and still making waves in the Philippine blogosphere when it comes to food blogging.
Top 7: Tied on the seventh spot were FruityOaty and PinoyBlogero
FruityOaty is a blog of Massa P, a Filipino-Canadian who writes about her views and reviews of life, food, current events, blogging, gadgets, and technology. Unfortunately, this award-winning blog is also on a hibernate mode as the owner posted her last blog entry in January 30, 2009. What happened? *puzzled* Darn, it was an uber good blog!!!
Oh well, she could have been very busy or…
I guess she is really not on her ‘blogging mode’ up to this point!
Juan Karlo Licudine, the author behind PinoyBlogero is undeniably still active in the blogosphere nowadays. The blog which boasts of his impressive artwork before will now be reinvented to a more personal journal pretty soon.
I guess this ‘personal move’ was to make way of his new blog, BlogComics.net as he actively updates comic fillers there more often.
Top 7: Tied on the eight spot were The Dork Factory and The Anitokid Chronikos
Unfortunately, I can not access this blog as of this writing. The url site: http://jhed.asteeg.net/ is giving me a ‘problem loading page’ message so I can not say much about this influential blog of 2007.
This influential blog of 2007 ‘blogging heart’ is all about the Philippine pool scene but it also has diverse thoughts oil and gas, financial services, information technology industries, electronic gadgets and motorcycling. What a diverse insights, huh?
The blog currently have an extensive interview of Efren ‘Bata’ Reyes on Probe Profiles and it’s definitely worth the read! 
Top 9: Gibbs Cadiz
Gibbs Cadiz is a personal blog of a man regarding travel, movies, books and mostly about theater. The blog has good niche because I haven’t seen bloggers passionately writing about theater so no wonder it has 344 feedburner subscribers.
Top 10: Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic
Based on my research, Jake the Miserable, the blogger behind the ‘Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic’ is no longer active in the blogosphere nowadays. Hmmm, again – I wonder what happened? Sayang naman…
I mean, with a blog title just like that – I bet he can still make a buzz in the blogosphere should he want to resurrect his blogging career.
So, what can I say???
To those still active: Congrats to all of you for giving us an inspiration to blog! You are already ‘experienced’ in blogging so we really appreciate the fact that ‘newbies’ are given a chance to showcase our stuffs.
To those ‘inactive influential bloggers’: I can understand you perfectly kasi hindi naman talaga madaling mag-blog eh! Bloggers like us are supposed to be giving informative and interesting entry in every single posts so it is no wonder you suddenly take ‘a blogging holiday’ for now or forever.
And to those who will win this 2009:
May you continue to light up the torch in inspiring fellow bloggers and make a positive change in our blogosphere.
Related posts:
- My Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2009
- A big ‘Thank You’ to all who have nominated Dear Bloggery!
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Thanks for this info, Snow. Half of the 2007 influential blogs are still rocking so that’s not so bad!
I know you will win this year and I hope you churn out more interesting reads in the years to come
Reply from Snow
Maraming-maraming salamat talaga for the support. 
Thanks Dinah for the kind words. To tell you honestly, winner or not okay lang. What important to me are the people like you who are reading and appreciating this blog.
.-= Dinah´s last blog ..Cory As Hero? Yes! =-.
Just like the nominees this year, 2007′s influential bloggers list has different styles. Thumbs up for the research =)
Reply from Snow
You’re welcome badudets. Well, Snow is a researcher so researching on just about anything is my forte. Naks! Thanks for dropping by.
.-= Badet´s last blog ..Watch NFL at the comforts of your own home =-.
great bloggers indeed!
Reply from Snow
yeah, kalungkot nga lang – yung iba dyan past tense na ang pagiging great bloggers. pero malay mo, mag-resurrect ano?
nice review.
it gave me glimpse of yesterday.
Reply from Snow
You’re welcome Miss Blogger. Hey, I like your pseudo-name…
Clap! Clap! Clap! Ganda ng post mo Snow. Hindi na ako mahirapan hanapin yang mga yan. Napag usapan namin ni Renz yan minsan eh. May esp ka talaga ano?
.-= Fatherlyours´s last blog ..Eat All You Can- @ P120.00 =-.
Awww thank you for the kind words. Good luck! =)
.-= Aileen Apolo´s last blog ..For Cory =-.
It is unfortunate that some of them has stopped blogging. Anyway, I am sure they have valid reasons as I for one thought that I will never be back to blogging again.
Luckily, I have friends who are supporting and inspiring me to continue in spite of my problems.
And I am so grateful that you’re among them.
Hope to see you tonight at PAGCOR, and good luck to us.
Thanks!
It made me think – Where will be the winners of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs 2009 tonight 2 years from now?
Reply from Snow
Hmmm, I’ll get back to you friend 2 years from now. As of the moment, heto pa lang ang lumabas sa kapalaran nila sa crystal ball. Hey, see you at 6750!
.-= Tyrone @ Millionaire Acts´s last blog ..Earn More Desire Less =-.
nice meeting you kanina snow
hehe
grabe you really search for them? galing ah.. tyaga mo din Snow.. by the way, asahan kita sa Thursday ha
Make or Break
.-= pehpot´s last blog ..Exercise For Pregnant Woman =-.
Nice to finally meet all of you last night… sayang konting utot pa sana nasa top 10 ka na
but winner or not your readers participation in your blog is what matters diba. Keep on blogging!
.-= earthlingorgeous´s last blog ..New Johnson’s Body Care Line For Women Launch =-.
at last, we’ve met! you almost made it to the top ten. sayang! 10.1 ba yun?
reader din ako ni philosophical bastard dati. he writes well and medyo marami din idiosyncrasies. he created his own awards.
.-= ceblogger´s last blog ..How To Come Up With A Good Blog Post In Just 30 Minutes =-.
wow Snow! ang galing mo talaga mag-research!
ang galing naman ito, I’ve been to some of these blogs, pero yung ngayon ko lang narinig.
kudos for another one great post Snow!
You will always be a winner in my book… and thank you very much for being a friend
.-= Roy´s last blog ..I’m sorry… I failed =-.
Snow,ang alam ko kasama ka sa top 10, kasi yun ang madalas kong nasasagap na balita sa barrio, hindi ko masyadong binigyan ng pansin ang influential blogger and i admit na i never vote anyone kasi kailan lang naman ako nagsimula nag blog so diko masyado sineryoso. but for me from top 1 to top 3, you are in between.
.-= Jeri´s last blog ..MMDA Foot Bridge Bosohan ng mga tambay =-.
nice to meet you last saturday ate snow, kahit hindi tau nagkausap (sayang! LOL)
ganda mo pala in-person..:P
.-= Kelvin Servigon´s last blog ..I am One of The Top 10 Emerging Influential Bloggers of 2009 =-.
Winner kapa rin sa puso at damdamin namin Snow! Hehe. Tama nga si Roy, galing mo talaga sa Research.
.-= bloggista´s last blog ..Cory Aquino: A Humble Poem Tribute =-.
kahit di ka nanalo e maganda ka padin. next time,isasalpak ko sandamakmak na blogs ko para kaw na top 1.ahehe! heads up, may butiki sa kisame! by the way, nanalo ako dun sa contest. thanks sa support!
.-= itot54joni´s last blog ..UFC 101 Declaration Fight Videos =-.
Wow. Well done Snow. Thank you for the example of a careful effort in doing such research and analysis…
.-= dFish´s last blog ..Tita Cory and the Big, Damned, Blocking Stone: Part I =-.
wow. i can’t believe u did this much homework. anyway, i discovered the pinoy bloggers this year. i have been really impressed and very proud of u all.
.-= mr. nonsense´s last blog ..IOWAna have fun! =-.
How are na Ate Snow? hope magaling ka na.
.-= fatherlyours´s last blog ..Congratulations to All the Winners =-.